19 a bscs perspective on contemporary biology education

... 29 PIRI AVERAGE PRICE CHANGE Rank Location Country/Area Nairobi Kenya Kenyan Coast Kenya Miami US Bali Indonesia Jakarta Indonesia London UK Vancouver Canada Moscow Russia Toronto Canada 10 Beijing ... nationalities now Russian Hong Kong British French American Swiss German Chinese Singaporean Canadian Nationalities growing in importance Chinese Indian Brazilian Malaysian Norwegian Kazakhstani ... Zealand 44 Washington DC US 45 Barcelona Spain 46 Paris France 47 Dubai UAE 48 Shanghai China 49 Madrid Spain 50 Singapore Singapore 51 Geneva Switzerland 52 Tuscany Italy 53 Barbados Caribbean...

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... response to the changes, and about the process for municipal decisionmaking;  discover what provincial and local actions are taking place in response to the changes;  have a chance to say what ... Table of Contents I Background on Provincial Budget Cuts to Social Assistance …………… Cap on health and non- health related discretionary benefits.……… Community Start-Up and Maintenance Benefit ... will continue to be delivered as a mandatory benefit without change Health-related benefits are costs like basic dental services, eyeglasses, and hearing aids for adults, as well as funerals and...

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... libraries and assume physical consolidation of individual print collections into an above-the-institution aggregation This paper takes an alternative approach, based on a broader view of library ... advocating megaregions as the appropriate scale for achieving consolidation and cooperative management in practice Assuming that regions are in fact the natural unit of consolidation, the scale at which ... of a US ZIP code)(Wikipedia 201 2a) In Canada, the comparison was based on a similar geographical unit, the forward sortation area, defined by the first three characters of a Canadian postal code...

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... misinterpretation of label information and exploitation Secondly, regulating authorities should strive towards mandating labelling regulations that require a simpler format for label information that consumers ... decisions (Lazarowicz, 2005) In addition, educational programmes should educate consumers on interpreting technical label terminology and layout and to practically apply it in decision making, because ... to make their voices heard (Mazis & Raymond, 199 7:24) Through ethical purchasing behaviour, consumers can express their approval and support of organisations that act socially and environmentally...

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... rational decision makers When a natural aspiration level is not available or meaningful, the decision maker needs to generate an aspiration level from available information One way to generate ... increasingly aggregated and summarized information (Johnson and Kaplan 198 7) This could cause top managers to fall back on measures that are less informative but readily available when evaluating ... structurally inert (Hannan and Freeman 197 7, 198 4) Among these, intra-organizational politics and inter-organizational constraints are especially important (Barnett and Freeman 2001) Although...

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... respond 3.3 Aspiration levels and adaptation Is it helpful or harmful for organizations that managers use performance feedback and aspiration levels to manage change? As noted earlier, historical ... Historical aspiration levels track the actual performance of the organization, and thus may let the aspiration level lose alignment with what is actually achievable in a given 66 Organizational Learning ... as soon as a solution is matched with a performance problem Organizational decision theory argues that problem availability depends on the timing of organizational agendas and decision-making...

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... problem and managerial risk tolerance, innovation generation results from organizational search only As discussed in chapter 3, organizations search habitually through institutionalized search, playfully ... Lending officers, analysts, and bond traders are individuals taking risk on behalf of the organizations, as managers are, and the risk taken by a single trader can be substantial (Shapira 2000) Thus, ... so changes in the rate of launching innovations over time can be investigated, and measures of organizational slack and search effort are also available over time Thus, 98 Organizational Learning...

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... the USA has provided additional support for this prediction (Kraatz 199 8; Kraatz and Zajac 199 6; Zajac and Kraatz 199 3) These studies examined the adoption of professional programs such as business ... organizational change that many managers hesitate to make We can study the acquisition of assets by pursuing the usual idea that performance below the aspiration level causes organizational change and managerial ... social aspiration (above zero) Share – social aspiration (below zero) Share – historical aspiration (above zero) Share – historical aspiration (below zero) Inconsistent aspiration levels Change...

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... advertising rates, targeted advertisers, and format changes Because radio broadcasting has many local markets, there is cross-sectional variation in social aspiration levels Because data are available ... estimates of historical aspiration levels Audience share estimates are a goal variable viewed as important by all radio station managers and sufficiently public that data are easy to compare across ... than small firms (Barnett 199 4; Barron, West, and Hannan 199 5; Hart and Oulton 199 6) Control variables The behavioral theory of the firm also predicts that organizational slack should affect search...

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... Feedback strategic inertia (Levinthal and March 199 3; Useem 199 6) Stock options are suitable for governing a rational and selfish manager, but are far from ideal for guiding a boundedly rational and ... organizations can help managers make differentiated social aspiration levels where the most similar organizations have greater weight Again, this differentiation is only helpful if managers are ... want frequent performance feedback, and it is also against rational notions that more information cannot possibly be bad for decision making The rational argument in favor of more information...

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... Prentice-Hall 199 5 Institutions and Organizations Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Scott, W Richard and John W Meyer 198 3 “The organization of societal sectors.” Organizational Environments: Ritual and Rationality, ... association? Interorganizational networks and adaptation to environmental change.” Academy of Management Journal, 41(6): 621–643 References 199 Kraatz, Matthew S and Edward J Zajac 199 6 “Exploring ... J G March Chicago, IL: Rand McNally 142 193 Stone, Brad 2000 “Amazon.com talks back.” Newsweek Asian Edition (July 10): 40 Strang, David and Sarah A Soule 199 8 “Diffusion in organizations and...

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... illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microlms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, ... Lineage 219 Claire Remacle, Patrice Hamel, Vộronique Larosa, Nitya Subrahmanian, and Pierre Cardol Part V Supercomplexes in Mitochondria 12 Supramolecular Organization of the Respiratory ... disease (Dawson and Dawson 2003) and possibly aging (Balaban et al 2005) Mutations in nucleus and mitochondria encoded subunits have been associated with several neurodegenerative diseases (Sazanov...

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... treatment concept for gunshot related intracranial haematomas Some authors had recommended an evacuation of haematomas [22,23], whereas others prefer evacuation only in cases of elevated intracranial ... threatening injuries of the thorax are haemato- or haematopneumothorax, tension pneumothorax and pericardial tamponade They should be diagnosed within the first physical examination and be treated ... have similar personalities as closed fractures [4,6,71] Unstable fractures require an appropriate method of surgical stabilization; those that can be controlled easily may be treated non-operatively...

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... summary, the LCA probably was not able to produce either L-aspartate or L-asparagine via the modern canonical alternologs (nitrilase and asparaginase), but could via the degradation of oxaloacetate ... Genome Biology 2008, Additional data files 18 The following additional data are available with the online version of this paper Additional data file is a graph showing a detailed view of the bipartite ... contrast, alanine racemase (EC:5.1.1.1) isomerizes D-alanine to Lalanine and is constrained to Bacteria Alanine aminotransferase (EC:2.6.1.2) converts L-glutamate and pyruvate to Lalanine and is...

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... ancestral pathway would be dependent on the acyl carriers and fatty acids available To get a first approximation of the generality of this observation, we carried out an all-against-all comparison ... evolution reveals biochemical networks and functional modules Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2003, 100:15428-15433 Ravasz E, Somera AL, Mongru DA, Oltvai ZN, Barabasi AL: Hierarchical organization of modularity ... following additional data are available online with this paper Additional data file shows the reconstructed metabolic networks from various databases (EcoKegg, EcoCyc, RefKegg and MetaCyc), eliminating...

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... collaboration with other international organisations The member countries include Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, ... International Energy Agency International Energy Forum Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change International Relations International Renewable Energy Agency Million tons of Carbon Dioxide North Atlantic ... energy and environmental issues from a domestic-international interaction perspective in a comparative framework Figure 1.4: International Political Economy: A Conceptual Map From a theoretical perspective, ...

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... and Garofoli, 200 7a; Yeung, 2009b) These transnational economic transactions are sustained by social and institutional factors, such as international organizations, transnational communities, and ... economic integration leads to heightened regional and local specialization Regional economies, rather than national economies, are now the foci of wealth creation and world trade (Krugman, 199 1; ... analytical foci from regional variables to non-regional ones, associated with studies of transnational corporations (TNCs) and economic globalization (i.e Amin and Robins, 199 0; Amin and Thrift, 199 2;...

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... what subsumption involves in terms of qualia instantiation Bayne and Chalmers are happy to talk in terms of qualia, and anyway such talk can hardly be avoided in discussing the conscious character ... “components” One might think of subsumption as analogous to a sort of mereological part/whole relation among phenomenal states, although this should be taken as an aid to intuition rather than as a serious ... are talking about overall visual content) The same goes for contents at a particular location in the visual field: anyone with an experience as of a certain location will have some specific content...

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... everyday life in finance The notion of financialization emanates from political economy and radical Marxian analyses of capitalism from the late 196 0s to the 198 0s Financialization was deemed as a ... financial operations and transactions, research on financialization has established that finance is constituted by both financial and non-financial actors and institutions Hence, it is critical ... them and managing corresponding financial transactions Financial transactions and flows are not entirely space-neutral and neither are financial centres all the same; financial centres are tiered...

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... Beyond personalisation: European perspectives on contextual marketing Although the best marketing channel to use may vary by category or customer, the survey reveals that a brand’s website remains ... company on social media and to identify customer satisfaction Yet marketers know that all data elements are not created equal The information most frequently collected by Dutch marketers consists ... market and the role of contextual marketing, MSD Netherlands (Merck & Co in the US and Canada) is in a unique position As a healthcare company, MSD is not allowed direct access to consumers So any...

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